Generalized P-Reducible (α, β)-Metrics with Vanishing S-curvature

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In this paper, we study one of the open problems in Finsler geometry which presented by Matsumoto-Shimada about the existence of P-reducible metric which is not C-reducible. For this aim, we study a class of Finsler metrics called generalized P-reducible metrics that contains the class of P-reducible metrics. We prove that every generalized P-reducible (α, β)-metric with vanishing S-curvature reduces to a Berwald metric or C-reducible metric. It results that there is not any concrete P-reducible (α,β)-metric with vanishing S-curvature.